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A. H. Almaas



A. H. Almaas is the pen name of Kuwaiti American author and spiritual teacher Hameed Ali. As the spiritual head of the Ridhwan School, Almaas developed the Diamond Approach, which is a means of spiritual development informed by modern psychological and therapeutic techniques. He has been described as an Integral Theorist and a perennial philosopher.

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Missed Opportunities, Part 2

The primary import of the present contemplation is to point out the significance of both recognizing and experiencing the individual consciousness, whether we refer to it as soul, stream of consciousness, or subtle continuum of awareness.

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A. H. Almaas
2013
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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen are you going to let yourself descend from your lofty preoccupations, and simply land where you are?

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A. H. Almaas: Consciousness, Its Nature and Role in Experience

For Nondual teachings, consciousness is everything and the nature of everything. For scientific theories, consciousness appears at some point in the physical world, and makes experience and science possible. Science has advanced various theories to understand consciousness and where it comes from.

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A. H. Almaas
2015
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The Power of Divine Eros: The Illuminating Force of Love in Everyday Life

Two innovative spiritual teachers show how to use desire and passion—eros—as a gateway to realizing our fullest potential. What do desire and passion have to do with our spiritual journey? According to A. H. Almaas and Karen Johnson, they are an essential part of it.

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A. H. Almaas, Karen Johnson
2013
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A. H. Almaas on the Inquiry Process

This is an excerpt from the interview with A. H. Almaas, Founder of the Diamond Approach at the Science and Nonduality Conference 2010. In this clip A. H. Almaas briefly discusses the spiritual inquiry process.

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A. H. Almaas
2011
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FindCenter Quotes ImageLove, compassion, kindness, and generosity change their function from being motivations for practice to becoming expressions of realization.

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The Jeweled Path: The Biography of the Diamond Approach to Inner Realization

An intimate account of the development of a spiritual tradition and a biography of its creators—told by one of the Diamond Approach cofounders. The Jeweled Path invites you to enter into the story of how the modern spiritual path of the Diamond Approach emerged.

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Karen Johnson, A.H. Almaas
2025
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The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues: Finding the Way Home

How the mysterious nine-pointed symbol of the enneagram illuminates the worst pitfalls and highest virtues of our psyches. The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues elucidates human experience beyond the personality structure.

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Sandra Maitri, A. H. Almaas (foreword)
2025
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Spacecruiser Inquiry: True Guidance for the Inner Journey

Over the past twenty-five years A. H. Almaas—widely recognized as a leader in integrating spirituality and psychology—has been developing and teaching the Diamond Approach, a spiritual path that integrates the insights of Sufism, Buddhism, Gurdjieff, and other wisdom traditions with modern psychology.

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A. H. Almaas
2025
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FindCenter Quotes ImagePractice is the interest, the love, the drive, the tendency, the movement, to be as authentic as possible, to be as real as possible.

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